The Eagles fell prey to a bit of a bye-week hangover on Sunday in Detroit. They didn’t quite come out the way they wanted to on either side of the ball, trailing 21-7 midway through the first half. Less than a year earlier, in the very same building, the Eagles fell flat and lost to the Lions 45-14. Sunday’s game looked like it was going to be an encore performance.
Then the Eagles flipped the switch.
The defense locked in and held the Lions to fewer than 100 yards of offense in the second half, and quarterback Carson Wentz helped fuel the offense.